Balthazar Nebot (active 1729–1762)

• Was a Spanish birth or descent painter active in England.
• He married in London in 1729 or 1730.
• There are various records of members of his family in the registers of St Paul's, Covent Garden.
• They include the burials of five of his children between 1731 and 1739, and of his wife Mary in 1742.
• He was a painter of urban scenes and topographical landscapes.

• Nebot also made an etching of "Foolish Sam", a mentally handicapped man well known in Leicester Fields.

• In the 1730s he painted a set of eight scenes recording the new formal gardens at Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, for Sir Thomas Lee. 

• In 1741 he painted a portrait of Thomas Coram, the founder of the Foundling Hospital, who is shown coming across an abandoned baby in a basket by the roadside.

• He made some anatomical drawings; the University of Glasgow owns some sketches and finished drawings of the female pelvis. 

• He painted fourteen views of Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, one of which is dated 1762. 

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